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Protests, marches and expectations
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Tongues and sounds
I have discovered that one of my most loved moments are when I hear my 3 grown sons talking with the 3 little boys in the family. The will have conversations that are almost a duplicate of those I had with each of them. They speak with the little'uns like they are intelligent. When the little boys miss a word, the big boys will stop them, and sound ( Read more... ) -
Blah Blah Finances
This evening I went to a class about goal setting. I did learn a couple of things, so it was cool. We did an exercise involving the writing down of areas of objectives. Five of the areas were filled in, with some doodles and such. The 6th was pretty bare. Pay rent, buy food. That was it. My financial goals are to survive. I'm thinking, looking at ( Read more... ) -
To back up my words yesterday
When I was in Haiti in 2014, I stayed in a city named Jakmel and helped out with 2 projects there. One is an art collective that has been around since 2009, where they not only each all sorts of art classes, but also subjects in art and business that will be possible money earners in the long term. The other is Kay (kigh-house) Ange (angel), so ( Read more... ) -
Do they know it's Christmas in Aleppo?
As I sit in my bed, watching whatever I want on my laptop and lazily scrolling through pictures on FB of people having Christmas morning celebrations I've had such frustrated thoughts. All of my Feed is covered with pictures of priviledge. Expensive Christmas trees covered in strand after strand of lights and shiny garland, with so many wrapped ( Read more... ) -
Here we are again
Two years. Two years since I've posted and it has taken a huge surge from LJ users that are suddenly reconnecting through Facebook. Over 3,000 of us in 3 days or less. I must say, there's a definite way we write and speak to and with each other and the stories of how LJ effected their lives have been astoundingly brilliant. It isn't like LJ went ( Read more... ) -
The tears
I'm crying alot this time. It is a combination of relief and sadness and joy ( Read more... ) -
Reboot from Haiti!
Look at me I'm entering, I'm happy and I'm entering ( Read more... ) -
tick tock
The roller coaster is a big old ride. Aside from the chaos that disaster can create and being part of the relief/recovery work that surrounds it, life has generally been in flux. That of course unpacks an overwhelming amount of mental dreck and swirl ( Read more... ) -
Processing Day 4
It is 2:16 AM, but I'm slowly winding down and needing to process a bit, so I thin I'll share it here this time ( Read more... )